YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Early Years of Christianity and Role of Gnosticism
Essays 391 - 420
(Lehigh, n.d.). There would be no churches and no charitable organizations (Lehigh, n.d.). And, there would be no promise of etern...
on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...
made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
eternity. There is significant archaeological evidence supporting this "Book" (RBC Ministries). * Its explanation for life. All re...
built a temple in honor of Jehovah (Yahweh). Following the construction of the Temple on Mt. Moriah in about the 10th century B.C...
is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...
p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...
Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...
first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...
the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...
And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...
The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...
the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...
in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...
eighteenth centuries was the formulation of the additions to the doctrine of the apostles in modern times (Marty, 1959). The first...
not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...
discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...